Hank : The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams (book)

Hank : The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
book by Mark Ribowsky

After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr.
Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression and tainted love, he would become in death a template for the rock generation to follow.
Mark Ribowsky weaves together the first fully realised biography of Williams in a generation.
Examining his music while re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, he traces the rise of this legend-from the dirt roads of Alabama to the immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry and to a lonely end on New Year's Day, 1953.
This original work uncovers the real Hank beneath the myths that have long enshrouded his legacy.

512 pages